UkUncut have recently been
grabbing headlines with their novel take on the recent Tory Government
"Essential Cuts to Public Spending". Instead of eyeing up our
welfare state and deciding which bits to trim or slash completely in the
name of efficiency, UkUncut have been looking at the tax avoiding Tory
friendly big businesses and pressuring them to pay their fair share.

The police as you can imagine were hot on the heels of the activists
and what followed was a cat and mouse game of protesters leading police
around the city before swooping on various unsuspecting branches of the
Bank. Our target ended up being the Tottenham Court Road branch, and as
the dozens of activists poured through the doors the security and police
attempted to stem the flow. The upper floor of the bank was soon occupied
with people sitting on the floor and holding up signs. Brief threats of
arrest for trespass were bandied about before the police accepted that
we were a peaceful group and it was probably easier to let the protest
ride out than start hitting peaceful people (a
welcome new approach from them).

The only problem however was that the branch was immediately closed
(a good thing) but the public and press were held outside whilst the protest
took place inside (not so great). Although the activists had managed to
close the bank (and we assume cost Barclays lots of money) there was no
way of spreading their word further. Time for a bit of Mass Debating!
Agents Bristly & Undecided pushed our way back out of the bank and
onto the highstreet into the mob of press. Pulling out our big pink erection
we proudly showed off our new sign to the people outside.

"MASS DEBATE IN PUBLIC - HERE - NOW"
Our plan was to get everyone outside the bank to start discussing what
was going on inside and the general finance Vs welfare debate going on
in the country.

Quoting various statistics about corporate tax avoidance, private healthcare
funding of the tory party, tax havens and more we soon discovered, perhaps
unfortunately, that everyone outside the bank, and everyone passing by
agreed with us. That we'd much rather save our public services than pay
the bonuses of a bunch of utter bankers. All very good, and all very positive,
however you need two sides for a debate?

All of a sudden a rather well dressed man barged his way through the
crowd and attempted to get into the now closed bank.

"What on earth is going on here?" he asked, as we tried to
explain the protest.
"But banks avoiding tax is a good thing, it means they earn more
money and so my savings prosper"

Oh we were going to have fun here. As you can imagine the baying public
soon started laying into the chap.

"Morals? Company's must reject all morals to be any good at being
profitable"

He was certainly giving his own. It was around the time that he came
out with the following line that the Police started hovering closer to
make sure he wasn't lynched.
"The serfs need the rich like me so that they have something to aspire
to, where is the aspiration in a world of equals?"

The rain was coming down heavy at this point, but the spirits of the
ever grown crowd of passers by were still high. Someone had passed over
a Megaphone so that the raging argument between the banker and everyone
in the street could be heard clearer.

Of course all good things must come to an end, and it wasn't long before
there were too many giggles and smirks from the growing number of Hijackers
before we were rumbled. Frequent visitors to our website will of course
recognise the bolshy banker as our very own Agent Greenman. When he was
finally outed in front of the crowd a big laugh and collective sigh of
relief was heard from everyone. The UkUncut gang evacuated the bank and
we all went to go and dry off in our favorite local pub.